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First, let's clear up what an acronym is. It is an initialism that is pronounced as a word. I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce "SOB" as a word. People pronounce the letters /es-oh-bee/. This makes SOB an initialism. NASA /nas-uh/ is an acronym, an initialism pronounced as a word.

Because the name of letter S is pronounced with a leading short /e/ vowel sound, we should say and write "He really is an SOB".

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English has a specific adjective order that native speakers learn at an early age. Language learners often have a difficult time learning this order at an adult age. Here are some resources to help clear this up.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/adjective-order/

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order

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Use "less" with uncountable nouns and "fewer" with countable nouns. Examples: less water and fewer people.

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Wouldn't the world be a better place if we could all agree that the
the decimal point is only to be used for decimals (0.715) and the comma for
separating thousands (7,150)?

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I've actually seen the vocative comma used in that phrase but it is extremely rare. The lack of the vocative comma gets to me too. xD